Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Envetec Sustainable Technologis Limited maintains a company patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio currently features 1 pending office action, which is being reviewed by a distinct examiner. GUTHRIE, TERESA A is the busiest examiner for the company, holding the 1 pending office action currently in the system.
The prosecution is concentrated in 1 distinct art unit, reflecting the specialized technical focus of the company's medical and mechanical innovations. With a distinct examiner and the pending office action, the company's current patent strategy is highly centralized. This means the outcome for the pending office action depends entirely on the feedback from GUTHRIE, TERESA A.
For practitioners, the 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field represents the total active workload for the portfolio. The involvement of 1 distinct art unit allows the legal team to focus on a specific set of examination standards. Successfully resolving the pending office action with GUTHRIE, TERESA A is the current priority for the company's patent growth.
The busiest examiner pending count of 1 confirms that the company's immediate patent goals are tied to a single review process. Reviewing the examiner's history within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering space can help anticipate potential hurdles. Monitoring the status of the pending office action is vital for timely adjustments to the broader intellectual property strategy.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (100%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| GUTHRIE, TERESA A | 1 | 67.0% | +36.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18606172 | CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A BIOHAZARDOUS WASTE TREATMENT SYSTEM | GUTHRIE, TERESA A | 42d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3725 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18606172 | CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A BIOHAZARDOUS WASTE TREATMENT SYSTEM | GUTHRIE, TERESA A | 3725 | §103 | Final Rejection | 42d | Pending | Mar 15, 2024 |
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